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Catastrophe star Rob Delaney and his wife Leah are to become parents again.

The actor, who revealed in February that their son had died, confirmed the news on Twitter.

Just had 2 typically wonderful @NHSEnglandLDN midwives visit my pregnant wife & I for a home birth assessment. Love to all marching for the NHS today. See my sad love letter to the NHS below. https://t.co/isAkRDqh2X

He wrote: “Just had 2 typically wonderful @NHSEnglandLDN midwives visit my pregnant wife & I for a home birth assessment. Love to all marching for the NHS today. See my sad love letter to the NHS below.”

Along with his tweet he shared a video he has made for Democratic Socialists for Medicare for All in which he urges Americans to get involved in the campaign for better healthcare.

The 41-year-old confirmed the baby news in a longer version of the video posted on his official Facebook page.

The UK's National Health Service spared Rob Delaney's family from financial stress while they endured the grief of losing their son. Now, a week before the NHS’s 70th anniversary, he encourages fellow Americans to get involved in the fight for Medicare for All:

He said: “We had a couple of kids in the US and we had one child here in the UK and we’re about to have another and now I know unfortunately that things can go very wrong and so I don’t have the attitude like it won’t happen to me because it did happen to us.

“Our son Henry passed away in January of this year from cancer and he was a beautiful little boy from the moment he was born until the moment he died.

“And he benefited so much from the healthcare system here and so did we as his parents because while we endured stress that was truly unbelievable.

“We didn’t endure the financial stress of wondering are we going to be able to pay for this, are we going to have to move during his treatment because we have to move into a smaller house or move in with relatives … so that financial stress we didn’t have to endure here and what a gift…”

Earlier this month, he paid tribute to Henry, who died after he was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

This is the first Father’s Day since my beautiful Henry died. Love today to all dads & moms who’ve lost a child.🦉 pic.twitter.com/nUmO3Qeybd